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Rich Rodriguez (official thread of last laughs)

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Yeah - Morgantown -the '82 tour. I did the whole band, but Keith was the only one to give me makeup tips...
 
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Dick Rod’s WVU offence doesn’t scare me at all, if you took West Virginia 2007 and gave them winged helmets I wouldn’t care. We all know it, but I’ll say it again to make my point clear; the Big Ten is disrespected with the perception that it is a big slow conference way too often. The Big Ten is bigger, yes, but it is also faster than the Big East. Now, I have to give him enough respect to believe that he will want a more balanced offence at Michigan. If he is dead set on running his offence from this season in the Big Ten year in year out he will need a Vince Young or Tim Tebow to make it work and there aren’t many of those. Not only are there not many of those, but the Youngs and Tebows of the world are smart enough to go where they will learn to be a good quarterback, not a direct snap running back that throws to change things up.

In 2005 Young attempted 285 passes completing 182 of them for 2,769 yards, conversely he only had 136 rushes for 850 yards, 267 of which came in one game. Tim Tebow threw 317 times completing 217 passes for 3,132 yards while running 194 times for 838 yards. Pat White on the other hand only threw 197 times completing 137 of them for 1,548 yards, he ran 177 times for 1,185 yards.

Now before everyone starts talking about how unfair of a comparison that is because those two are heisman award winners lets look at two other mobile quarterbacks from this year.

Juice Williams compares most favorably with White, he threw 232 times completing only 132 for 1,498 yards, he ran 150 times for 774 yards. He was benched for a game for his performance so I’ll throw the backup who is also a mobile quarterback in for a complete comparison to Illinois. Eddie McGee 54 passes completing 28 of them for 388 yards he ran 29 times for an additional 146. Illinois’ total is 160 completed passes for 1,886 yards with 179 running plays for 920 yards.

Now as McGee is supposed to be the future of Illinois spread attack and he is supposed to be the better passer you might be thinking if Zook found himself a better passer at Illinois maybe Dick Rod had a better passer to take over after White. Jarrett Brown also played most of a game for White due to injury his stats? 48 with 31 completions for 341 yards 49 rushes for 327 yards, those stats say he was not looking to throw more in the future.

The forth and final player is Dennis Dixon, Dixon played less games than White, but he is also the only one that is a senior in this list so he did have more experience than White. Dixon threw 254 passes completing 172 of them for 2,136 yards he ran 105 times for 583 yards.

I won’t even compare him to Troy Smith because we all know what Troy did and it isn’t even close. On this list excluding McGee and Brown White is the only player to throw less than 200 times. The only player he completed more passes and got more passing yards than is Williams who was benched for a game. He and Williams are the only two to run more times than the amount of passes they completed, and the only player to run more times than him is Tebow who was on the field a ton.

The last thing that White and Williams have in common is that they are the least likely of the group to become NFL quarterbacks. All of the coaches responsible for the development of these players have or are doing a better job of turning a mobile quarterback into an efficient passer than Dick Rod.

Without more passing or a Vince Young or Tim Tebow to run it his offence is going to be hurting in the Big Ten. Again like I said I expect he’ll be more balanced even with a mobile quarterback in the future, but without the evidence if I wanted to play quarterback at the next level I’d follow Tim Tebow, Vince Young, Tory Smith, Dennis Dixon or Eddie McGee not Pat White and Jarrett Brown.

NOTE: I left out Vince Young’s National Championship game, it still gave him one more game due to the Big XII championship.
 
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I'll be honest, his offense does scare me, but his defense makes me laugh. He's in the big east and it's going to take a few years for him to build what he wants, how long will tsun give him to build that? And as he's building it, how quickly will the big10 adapt? face it,, we have good coaches in our conference, we may laugh at them, but the reality is they do adapt and that will be is downfall. Tressel won't sit there, watch 10 games and say "we're doing our traditional defense" when they come to town. I welcome more spread offense teams, especially from Michigan. This will hurt their NFL prospects in the long run, it's seen as if you want to be an NFL Quarterback that Michigan is a great school for that, just as Runningbacks with tOSU. So take away a strong recruiting point from them, I am sure it will pay off in the long run...
 
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OCBucksFan;1031546; said:
He's in the big east and it's going to take a few years for him to build what he wants, how long will tsun give him to build that?
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He's going to Michigan, not Minnesota. The cupboard isn't exactly bare, starting with Mallet, a QB with a year's worth of experience for them and if he gets the 6'6 kid from PA who's tagged as "The Next Vince Young" he could be 2 deep at the most important position on the field.

As for defense, that may well be why he's going to Michigan. At WVU he was never going to have enough athletes to have BOTH a great offense and a great defense. He can do that at Michigan.
 
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Wonder if Christine Brennan will call out UM for hiring Rodriguez? As you may recall, this UM homer went on a long tirade against OSU for recruiting Pat Lazear. USA Today. (Credit to offshorebuckeye for the flashback)

If (erroneous) reports of continuing to recruit one kid drew out this level of vitriol and self-righteous smearing, what lies in store for a coach with a laundry list of troubled recruits?
 
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Wonder if Christine Brennan will call out UM for hiring Rodriguez? As you may recall, this UM homer went on a long tirade against OSU for recruiting Pat Lazear. USA Today. (Credit to offshorebuckeye for the flashback)

If (erroneous) reports of continuing to recruit one kid drew out this level of vitriol and self-righteous smearing, what lies in store for a coach with a laundry list of troubled recruits?
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She won't do anything. Christine Brennan's role in Michigan vs. Ohio State: The Rivalry tells you where her bias comes from.
 
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Interesting.

WVU officials blamed for coach leaving

The wealthy donors primarily responsible for keeping Rich Rodriguez as head football coach at West Virginia University 53 weeks ago are angry and frustrated over his departure this week for the University of Michigan.

Their ire isn't directed at Mr. Rodriguez.

It's aimed at WVU administrators.

"I tell you what, I've never seen anything mishandled as much as this was," Bob Reynolds, former chief operating officer of Fidelity Investments, said yesterday. "Here's a university that made a $200,000 decision -- it probably could've cost less than that [to keep Mr. Rodriguez] -- and it's going to cost them millions" in booster support, potential bowl money and revenue from football success.

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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 Larry Lage

Associated Press
Ann Arbor, Mich.- Rich Rodriguez walked through a flashlight-lit locker room, down a darkened tunnel and stepped onto the Michigan Stadium field for the first time.
"It's beautiful," he said with snow covering his dress shoes.
A new era began at Michigan on Monday. The winningest program in college football ended its first coaching search since hiring Bo Schembechler nearly four decades ago by luring Rodriguez and his spread offense from West Virginia.




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Blade

Article published Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Commentary: New Wolverines boss takes his lumps, but not in coal

By MATT MARKEY
BLADE SPORTS WRITER

ANN ARBOR - Rich Rodriguez figured he'd make a lousy coal miner. As it turns out, he's also not much at this awkward ballet of secret rendezvous, covert negotiations and all the uncomfortable questions that have accompanied his abrupt move from West Virginia to Michigan. But Rodriguez is an ultra-successful college football coach, one of an elite fraternity of young and innovative up-and-comers. He is an extraordinary commodity, and the Wolverines were anxious to cut in on what is historically a killer seller's market. So Rodriguez and everyone on both sides of the fence in this multi-million dollar cha cha had to endure a painful, cumbersome and unwieldy dance - that succession of clumsy moves it takes to spirit a top coaching talent from one encampment to another. It is Barishnikov in mukluks. It is never pretty.

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THE SPREAD OFFENSE
? An offensive scheme that typically begins with the quarterback in shotgun formation.

? The fundamental nature involves spreading the field horizontally using 3, 4 and even 5-receiver sets, as well as wide splits between the offensive linemen. This opens up multiple vertical gaps for both the running and passing game to exploit, as the defense is forced to spread itself thin across the field to cover everyone.

? At West Virginia, Rich Rodriguez used a run-oriented version of the spread called the ?spread option.? This offense requires a quarterback that is comfortable carrying the ball, a mobile offensive line that can pull and trap effectively, and receivers that can hold their blocks.

? The essence of the spread option is misdirection, and it is reliant upon the quarterback being able to read the defense to determine whether to keep the ball or pitch to a running back.

? This season, the Mountaineers? quarterback, Patrick White, led the team in rushing with 1,273 yards.
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